"Speed - The Great Western Railway"" in 1844 after looking out of the window of his train on Maidenhead Railway Bridge, and in 1862 William Powell Frith painted """", a large crowd scene on the platform at Paddington. The station itself was initially painted for Powell by W Scott Morton, an architect, and a train was specially provided by the GWR for the painting, in front of which a variety of travellers and railway staff form an animated focal point. The GWR has featured in many television programmes, such as the BBC children's drama series ""God's Wonderful Railway"" in 1980."
"needed to protect it from the thronging crowds (only the second time that a rail was installed at the Royal Academy exhibition: the first was in 1822 for David Wilkie's ""The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch""). The painting was bequeathed to the National Gallery by Jacob Bell in 1859 and but later transferred to the Tate Gallery. Frith was commissioned to paint a second version for James Gresham of Stretford in 1893–94, which has been held by Manchester Art Gallery since 1896. The Derby Day The Derby Day is a large oil painting showing a panoramic view of The"
"engraving for sale to the public as prints, and Frith may have earned as much as £3,000 from the sales. Ramsgate Sands Ramsgate Sands, also known as Life at the Seaside, is an oil-on-canvas painting by William Powell Frith, made in 1852 to 1854, which depicts a beach scene in Ramsgate. The painting was Frith's first great commercial success: it was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1854, and bought by Queen Victoria. Frith made a series of similar pictures, showing groups of people in contemporary scenes, including ""The Derby Day"" of 1858, and ""The Railway Station"" of"
"Ramsgate Sands Ramsgate Sands, also known as Life at the Seaside, is an oil-on-canvas painting by William Powell Frith, made in 1852 to 1854, which depicts a beach scene in Ramsgate. The painting was Frith's first great commercial success: it was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1854, and bought by Queen Victoria. Frith made a series of similar pictures, showing groups of people in contemporary scenes, including ""The Derby Day"" of 1858, and ""The Railway Station"" of 1862 and ""Private View at the Royal Academy of 1883. After the South Eastern Railway reached Ramsgate Town railway station"
"painted by Sir David Wilkie. Wilkie's famous painting ""The Chelsea Pensioners"" was a spur to the creation of Frith's own most famous compositions. Following the precedent of Wilkie, but also imitating the work of his friend Dickens, Frith created complex multi-figure compositions depicting the full range of the Victorian class system, meeting and interacting in public places. In 'Ramsgate Sands' (also known as 'Life at the Seaside', 1854) he depicted visitors and entertainers at the seaside resort. He followed this with ""The Derby Day"", depicting scenes among the crowd at the race at Epsom Downs, which was based on photographic"
"be read as a Victorian version of William Hogarth's ""Industry and Idleness"". Egg travelled frequently to the south of England and the south of France, seeking relief from his life-long asthma. It was one of the last paintings made by Egg before his death in 1863. Railway art became popular after William Powell Frith's 1862 painting ""The Railway Station"". The painting influenced an engraved illustration by John Tenniel in ""Through the Looking-Glass"", in which Alice wears a similar costume and hat in a railway carriage, sitting opposite Benjamin Disraeli, wearing a paper hat, and a goat. The Travelling Companions The"
"Manchester in 1857. Howlett was commissioned to make photographic studies of the crowd at the 1856 Epsom Derby for the painter William Powell Frith, who used them in 1858 for his painting of ""The Derby Day"" which was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in 1859. The photographs were taken from the roof of a cab. Howlett's major work was the commission by the ""Illustrated Times"") to document the construction of the world's largest steamship, the SS ""Great Eastern"". His images were translated into wood-engravings by Henry Vizetelly for the ""Illustrated Times"". They reflected and stimulated the widespread interest"
"The Luxembourg Station in Brussels The Luxembourg Station in Brussels is a 1903 painting by Henri Ottmann. It's displayed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. In the Salon of Free Aesthetics, Brussels, 1903, Henri Ottmann for the first time exhibited three views of the Luxembourg station, picturing one weather condition for each view: wind, frost and fog. It is probable that the painting was one of these three. The point of view is from a bridge which shadows the crossing train tracks. The signal stands just behind the frame, the painting shows its top. This motif is similar to Claude"
"in 1846, the town of Ramsgate rapidly became a popular destination for day trips from London. Frith was already a successful artist. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1853, and the painting was based on studies made by Frith during a holiday in Ramsgate in September 1851, where he was inspired by the variety of everyday life. Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds an oil sketch from 1851-2. Frith takes advantage of the location to paint people of different social classes in contemporary modern dress. The seaside was a place where the different classes, ages, and sexes could"
"by William Powell Frith painted in the 1858 and titled ""The Derby Day""; critics have noted that the foreground of the painting features the entertainment attractions, while the racing is relegated to the margins. In the 1870s, the steam-driven rides were introduced. They were located at the Tattenham Corner end of the grounds and the fair was on for ten days and entertained hundreds of thousands. During the latter half of the 20th century, Derby Day became less popular and the race was moved from Wednesday to Saturday in 1995 the hope of reviving high attendance. As the number of"
"in his career when much of his output comprised variations on his famous works. An 1893 version covers the brief glimpse of red stocking seen in the original with a lace undergarment. Another version from the same year updates the image by depicting the woman wearing the fashions of the 1890s. The Crossing Sweeper The Crossing Sweeper is an 1858 painting by William Powell Frith which has been described as breaking ""new ground in its description of the collision of wealth and poverty on a London street."" Frith later painted several versions of the same subject, updating the fashions. The"
"(French: ""The stakes are set – No more bets""). It received mixed reviews - some critics preferred the repulsive realism of Doré, but Frith's work became so popular with the viewing public that a barrier was erected to keep back the crowd – an accolade rarely accorded: the previous two instances were Frith's ""The Derby Day"" in 1858, and David Wilkie's ""Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch"" in 1822. It was also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878. Frith then embarked on a Hogarthian series of paintings on moral subjects, ""The Road to Ruin"", which follows the"
"as a model for Frith: ""This youth had a kind of idea that sitting meant turning head over heels; and every now and then Mr. Frith had to stop him from actually turning a somersault among his casts and drapery."" The Chums article also relates how the young boy was impressed with the lavatory in Frith's house, exclaiming to his father: ""Oh, father, such a beautiful place – all mahoginy (sic) and a chany (sic) basin to wash in."" The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1858, where it became so popular that a rail was"
"who, broom in hand, take possessions of our crossings and level black mail upon the public in general, and timid females in particular."" Frith's sweeper is ostentatiously deferential, while also pushing close to the woman, setting extremes of poverty and wealth up against one another, a theme the artist explored in other works such as ""Poverty and Wealth"", ""For Better, For Worse"" and ""The Derby Day"". The 1858 painting is in the Museum of London; it was also reproduced in the same year as an engraving, becoming a well-known image. Frith created several copies in the 1890s, at a time"
"The Derby Day The Derby Day is a large oil painting showing a panoramic view of The Derby, painted by William Powell Frith over 15 months from 1856 to 1858. It has been described by Christie's as Frith's ""undisputed masterpiece"" and also ""arguably the definitive example of Victorian modern-life genre"". The original version is in Tate Britain in London. As with many of Frith's works, he painted a second version many years later, which is now in the Manchester Art Gallery. A much smaller but well-finished oil study was sold in 2011. The painting measures by and gives a satirical"
"Lane is long gone. Lordship Lane station was a station on the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway, built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1865, which closed along with the rest of the line on 20 September 1954. The railway crossed London Road (just beyond the southern end of Lordship Lane) on a bridge and the station was just to the south-west of the road. The site is now housing: the London Borough of Southwark's Sydenham Hill Estate. This locality is also the subject of ""Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich"", an 1871 painting by Camille Pissarro, which"
"Western Railway and Harcourt Street Railway Station, Dublin (1858–59) for the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway. Wilkinson was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878. He retired to England in about 1888. He died at Ryde House, Twickenham 4 October 1890. He married Mary Clinch in Witney on 18 December 1850. Mary was a daughter of John Williams Clinch (1788–1871) the Witney brewer, banker and landowner. George Wilkinson (architect) George Wilkinson, FRIBA was a British architect who practised largely in Ireland. He was born at Witney, Oxfordshire in 1814. He was the elder brother of"
"east of the station. The Barking train had been stopped at an automatic signal on its way to Temple station. Six passengers were killed and 43 injured. The cause of the accident was a faulty signal, which showed a green ""proceed"" aspect to the second train even though the line ahead was not clear. This was a result of a wrong connection made during the previous night when some minor alterations to wiring were made. The station is in London fare zone 1. On the District and Circle lines, the station is between Westminster and Temple, and, on the Northern"
"William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ""The Sleeping Model"" as his Diploma work. He has been described as the ""greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth"". William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in North Yorkshire on 9 January 1819. Frith was encouraged to take up art by his father, a hotelier in Harrogate. Frith was great uncle and an advisor"
"City's controlling government, the Corporation of London, were unsure as to what it should look like and how many arches there should be. The station was designed by Joseph Cubitt and had a long roof with walls that stretched up to the riverbank. Cubitt subsequently designed the original bridge, which carried four tracks on a lattice girder bridge, supported by sets of stone piers supporting iron columns. Services began across the bridge on 21 December 1864. Upon completion, trains ended at a temporary terminal, replaced by on 1 June 1865. A further station, opened on 2 March 1874 and the"
"number of stations in London, and that these were merely three of them. Gordon was disappointed to discover when he visited London that the station he visited was St. Pancras. The locomotives that have been featured in ""The Railway Series"" are detailed below, although others have been seen in various illustrations. The ""Foreign Engine"", also known as the ""Big City Engine"", appears in the story 'Gordon Goes Foreign' in ""The Eight Famous Engines"" in which he debates with Gordon and Duck over the name of the terminus station in London. Gordon claims the station is King's Cross, Duck claims it"
"of The Clique. Walter Frith, the third son from William P. Frith's first marriage, was the author of fourteen plays and three novels. William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ""The Sleeping Model"" as his Diploma work. He has been described as the ""greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth"". William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in North Yorkshire on 9"
"demolition of several buildings, including the Gasworks. In the ""Harry Potter"" books, King's Cross station is where the protagonist boards the train for Hogwarts. However, the author, JK Rowling, later admitted she mixed up Kings Cross with the next door station, Euston. The railway station has put up a sign for the fictional ""Platform"" described in the books, and embedded part of a luggage trolley halfway into the wall. Film adaptations have used platforms 4 and 5 for some scenes. Kings Cross and its surrounding streets were also the setting for the 1955 Ealing comedy, ""The Ladykillers"", two British drama"
"The Crossing Sweeper The Crossing Sweeper is an 1858 painting by William Powell Frith which has been described as breaking ""new ground in its description of the collision of wealth and poverty on a London street."" Frith later painted several versions of the same subject, updating the fashions. The painting depicts a ""crossing sweeper"" offering his services to a young woman who is looking out for a gap in traffic to cross the road. Crossing sweepers offered to sweep the streets in front of wealthy-looking pedestrians in the hope of a tip. The roads at that time were often smeared"
"Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch, originally entitled Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22, 1815, Announcing the Battle of Waterloo, is an oil painting by David Wilkie, commissioned by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in August 1816. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1822, where it was so popular that a rail was installed to protect it from the thronging crowds. This was the first time that a rail was needed at the Royal Academy exhibition. The painting was retained by the Duke"
"into the capital; after 1857 the company's Leicester and Hitchin Railway gave access to London via the GNR. However, traffic for the second International Exhibition in 1862 suffered great delays over both lines, and so the decision was taken to develop its own London terminus from Bedford. Surveying for a long line began in October 1862. Designed by William Henry Barlow, as the approaching line to the station crossed the Regent's Canal at height, the result was that the line at St Pancras railway station was to be above the ground level. Initially planned to be filled with spoil from"
"included in Forster's published biography of Dickens.) Most critics praised the work for its simplicity, truthfulness of characterisation, and lack of easy sentimentality, but others criticised it for the same reasons, condemning its squalor and hopelessness, and rejecting it as a suitable subject for a painting in an art gallery. Nevertheless, it became very popular with the viewing public, so much that a barrier was erected to keep back the crowd – an accolade rarely accorded: previous examples include David Wilkie's ""Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch"" in 1822, and William Powell Frith's ""The Derby Day"" in 1858 and ""The"
"control of trains at Friary became the responsibility of staff on the ground, with the approaches controlled by the panel signal box at North Road. ""Friary B"" signal box housed 45 levers and controlled movements within the passenger station. It closed on 21 July 1962. Plymouth Friary railway station Plymouth Friary railway station was the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) terminus in Plymouth, Devon, England. London and South Western Railway trains first arrived at Plymouth on 17 May 1876, entering the town from the east. To get there trains had travelled over the company's line as far as Lydford"
"Two. A policeman was detailed to stand by a railing to keep the crowds back (only the third time this step had been necessary, after David Wilkie's ""The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch"" in 1822 and William Powell Frith's ""The Derby Day"" in 1858). The painting toured the country, attracting large crowds. Artist William Holman Hunt noted in his book ""Pre-Raphaelitism"" that ""it touched the nation's heart as few pictures have ever done"". The work had been commissioned for £100 by a Manchester industrialist Charles Galloway. However, Queen Victoria insisted that she should buy it, and the work remains"
"""fine artists"". The picture was among a group exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857. Frith is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. The first major retrospective in Frith's native Britain for half a century was staged at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London in November 2006. It transferred to Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in March 2007. Frith's study for his last major work, ""The Private View"", 1881, is in the Mercer Art Gallery. Frith has paintings in the collection of several British institutions including Derby Art Gallery, Sheffield, Harrogate and the Victoria and"
"London Bridge, Guy's Hospital, London Bridge station, Hay's Galleria, HMS ""Belfast"", City Hall, Shad Thames, Tower Bridge, St Katharine Docks, the Tower of London, Tower Hill Underground station and the Monument to the Great Fire of London. André Derain painted four works on the Thames, and his ""Pool of London"" painted in 1906 is on display at the Tate Gallery. Derain was a leading Fauvist and had been sent to London by his dealer to produce Thames views in the Fauvist style. A British film, ""Pool of London"" (1951), is a crime drama set within the Pool. The film was"
"Carnforth railway station Carnforth railway station serves the town of Carnforth in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by architect William Tite and was used as a location in the 1945 film ""Brief Encounter"". It is now operated by Northern and situated north of on the West Coast Main Line. Carnforth railway station was opened in 1846 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR). It had a single platform and was a second-class station. It became a junction in 1857 when the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway arrived from the northwest, the station was its southern terminus. The Furness Railway took"
"Blackfriars Railway Bridge Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge. There have been two structures with the name. The first bridge was opened in 1864 and was designed by Joseph Cubitt for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. Massive abutments at each end carried the railway's insignia, preserved and restored on the south side. Following the formation of the Southern Railway in 1924, inter-city and continental services were concentrated on Waterloo, and St Paul's Station became a local and suburban stop. For this reason, the use of"